{"id":159945,"date":"2025-09-21T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159945\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:20:07","slug":"demon-slayer-easily-beat-him-despite-a-huge-week-to-week-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159945\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Slayer easily beat Him despite a huge week-to-week decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as we predicted<\/a> earlier this week, the anime smash\u00a0Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u00a0easily held off the Jordan Peele-produced horror flick\u00a0Him, taking the top spot with $17.3 million. While that represents a massive 76% week-to-week drop (anime movies are always front-loaded as fans rush to see opening night), it still passed $104 million this weekend, making it by a wide margin the highest-grossing anime release in North America\u2014ever.<\/p>\n

As for\u00a0Him, which was produced (but not directed) by Jordan Peele, poor reviews\u2014including one from our own Tyler Nichols<\/a>\u2014doomed it to a mediocre $13 million opening. With a terrible C-minus CinemaScore, it seems audiences didn\u2019t connect with this football-horror take on\u00a0Faust. It will likely lose most of its business next weekend, though its opening isn\u2019t disastrous.<\/p>\n

The real surprise came from\u00a0The Conjuring: Last Rites, which gave\u00a0Him\u00a0a genuine battle for second place, earning a better-than-expected $12.95 million in its third weekend. Its box office total now stands at a superb $151.7 million, making it the highest-grossing film in the Conjuring universe.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate\u2019s\u00a0The Long Walk\u00a0experienced a more modest-than-expected 46% drop in week two, earning $6.3 million for a $22.7 million total. It should be able to reach a $30 million domestic total, which, combined with foreign grosses and streaming sales, should help it turn a nice profit.<\/p>\n

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale\u00a0also performed well, tying with\u00a0The Long Walk\u00a0for third place with $6.3 million, bringing its total to $31.6 million. It should come close to matching its predecessor,\u00a0A New Era, which topped out at $44.1 million domestically.<\/p>\n

As for the weekend\u2019s biggest disaster, that title goes to the Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell-led\u00a0A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, which opened to just $3.5 million. With a $50 million budget, this will go down as one of the year\u2019s biggest box office disappointments, particularly given the talent involved. That said, the stars likely have better things ahead: Farrell with\u00a0The Batman 2\u00a0and Robbie with the upcoming\u00a0Withering Heights\u00a0remake, which should perform well.<\/p>\n

Angel Studios delivered a crowd-pleaser with\u00a0The Senior\u00a0(which we loved<\/a>), earning an A CinemaScore and $2.7 million.\u00a0Toy Story\u2019s 30th Anniversary re-release continued to earn, bringing in $1.4 million for a $5.8 million total. The live stage production\u00a0Noah\u00a0didn\u2019t quite match Disney\u2019s recent\u00a0Hamilton, but still appeared in the top 10 with $1.386 million, while\u00a0Weapons\u00a0closed out its run in tenth place with $1.26 million, just shy of a $150 million total (a mark it is expected to surpass this week).<\/p>\n

Next weekend promises to be interesting with the release of\u00a0One Battle After Another, one of the best-reviewed films of the year. Will it be enough to top the box office and recoup its huge budget? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as we predicted earlier this week, the anime smash\u00a0Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u00a0easily held off the Jordan Peele-produced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,8684,75,1621],"class_list":["post-159945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-demon-slayer-infinity-castle","tag-entertainment","tag-him"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}